Re: Can someone test installing 'database' and connecting on Mac OS X?

[Alexander Hansen]

On 4/16/13 10:54 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> On Apr 16, 2013, at 11:50 AM, Olaf Till wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I got a bug report off-list with a segfault of the database package on
> > Mac OS X. I couldn't get much further information, but still wouldn't
> > like to drop it.
> >
> > If someone has installed, or tried to install, database on Mac OS X,
> > could he/she report?
> >
> > Or if someone on Mac OS X thinks he can make the effort to install the
> > latest packaged version (2.1.1), try connecting to some postgresql
> > database, and to obtain a backtrace in case of segfault, this would be
> > great (but don't do it if it takes an hour or more, this would not be
> > justified since the OP did not make such an effort).
> >
> > FYI, the configuration of the OP was:
> >
> > Mac OS X 10.8.3
> > gcc version 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2336.11.00)
> >
> > GNU Octave, version 3.6.3
> >
> > postgres (PostgreSQL) 9.2.1 (I tried libpq of 9.2.1 on my system
> > without getting a segfault.)
> >
> >
> > The segfault was reported to happen at connection time:
> >
> > conn = pq_connect (setdbopts ("dbname", "name_of_database")); # -> crash
> >
> >
> > Olaf
>
> I have  not used the database package, but it is available via macports.
>
>         
> https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/math/octave-database/Portfile
>
> It may also be available via Fink, but the site listing available packages is 
> down at the moment.
>
> Ben

Yeah, we've been fighting with that.  It's available in Fink, too.

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